Motion
- Motion title
- Reaffirming UCU’s commitment to proportional or progressive subscription rates
- Session
- 2021-2022
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 1 June 2022
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 13
- Motion text
Motion 6 (Congress2018) asked ‘the Treasurer and NEC to look at subscriptions with a view to achieving a proportional or progressive system.’
This is erroneously weakened as: ‘to look at subscriptions with a view to moving towards a more proportional/progressive system’ (UCU/2023), despite this error being amended when it occurred in Congress2021 (Motion 36).
The five-year deadline expires in 2023, yet we are far from ‘proportionality’. For example:
1. Under current proposals (UCU/2023) a member on £30k pays about 77 percent of one on £60k. To be proportional it would be 50 percent; to be progressive, less.
2. The highest subscription band starts at £60K, with no gradation above this.
Congress:
a. Reaffirms its commitment to ACHIEVING proportional or progressive subscriptions by 2024 (year delay to accommodate Covid disruption), whether through lowering middle and low-paid members’ fees and/or raising subscriptions for the higher-paid.
b. Encourages the Treasurer to introduce a new higher rate band
- Proposing body
- London regional committee
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2022/C/06-01/053/13